Help me Choose Musiville’s Cover (Part 2)

When I asked you for your help in choosing Musiville’s cover last week, I had no idea you would all be so generous with your feedback. I’m grateful to everyone who voted or commented – thank you! You really are the best 🙂

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Continuing the Musiville cover saga, your feedback made it clear that the idea of a village appealed to you. So, my illustrator friend Dimitris Fousekis offered to work on a second alternative for the “villagey” cover.

Before he goes any further, I promised to ask if this one appeals more to you. Hope you are able to give me some further, much needed feedback on which cover you like best.

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Ok I really couldn’t decide. I polled option 1 because my gut told me that one. But I REALLY like all of them. Number 2 is really cool- I love the art on that one, just something about the text in the green block over the art turned me off of it. Also I still love the simplicity of the 3rd one… so… I voted #1, but only by like a 10% margin!

Difficulter and difficulter. I voted for #2 because I really like the village aspect and the Elvisaurus… but I’m never sure. In hindsight, that monster-like piano character with the big grin won me over after staring at him for some time. I think it depends on the age of the children you want to entertain. Why don’t you print out a few of the cover-candidates and show them to a group of kids of the target age?

Most older kids do like monsters, though. Just think of the three-headed dog in Harry Potter. If it doesn’t cause nightmares, they might actually prefer it to what we think is nice…
Maybe a local school or kindergarten? You could tell the kids how books are made…

Hi Nick – art editor’s hat on! Definitely No 2 as you can see the Village… if Elvisaurus isn’t a featured player then why not put Trumpephant in there instead as he’s far and away the most fun! 😉
That would be my instinct for the best of all worlds, as the new village solution makes a great background and Trumpy can be better placed in the foreground and maybe ‘frame’ the Illustrator credit line? 😀

I’ll admit that I’m in the Trumpephant camp, but it sounds like more people want a village. I like the second one because it depicts more of a scene than the first. The first one has a slight appearance of being characters simply being put on there. I guess they could be playing music together, but I didn’t get that thought right away. What’s the guy on the new village cover?

I would still stick to Option 1, it is simple ,nice and conveys idea of village and multiple characters in story! Didn’t know much about character Trumphephant so as a new reader only him on book cover gives me an idea that he is protagonist of story and all story revolves around him.If that is the real case, I would then go for option 3.